Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services

NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest public health care system in the United States. We provide essential outpatient, inpatient and home-based services to more than one million New Yorkers every year across the city’s five boroughs. Our large health system consists of ambulatory centers, acute care centers, post-acute care/long-term care, rehabilitation programs, Home Care, and Correctional Health Services. Our diverse workforce is uniquely focused on empowering New Yorkers.

At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

Under the direction of the Senior Director, Clinical Pharmacy Services, the Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services supports the objective of delivering safe, cost effective and optimal medication therapy. The Director is responsible for overseeing and running (on a system level) clinical based pharmacy meetings such as but not limited to, Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Medication Safety Council, Pharmacy Clinical Committee, and other interdisciplinary Councils.

The Director will collaborate with central, site, nursing and medical leadership on medication formulary development and adherence. The Director will attend, on a regular basis, local site P&T meetings in order to help ensure consistency and observance to corporate P&T decisions. The Director will coordinate all clinical pharmacy services and programs to help obtain desirable patient outcomes through the use of safe, appropriate, and cost-effective medication therapies.

The Director will also oversee clinical pharmacy operations across the system for both Ambulatory and Acute Care Clinical Pharmacy Services, promoting standardization and advancing clinical pharmacy practices.

The Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services will maintain expert working knowledge of The Joint Commission Department of Public Health (DPH), American Society of Health system Pharmacists (ASHP), Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) and Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Services (CMS) medication-related and pharmacy practice standards and metrics and relates them to current departmental and organizational policies and procedures.

• Manages central Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
• Involved with planning and execution of P&T agenda and material
• Coordinates with presenters to ensure proper material is received and appropriate review is performed
• Works with Clinical Pharmacy team to review all material in an unbiased manner to develop a formulary monograph for P&T presentation
• ii. Works with IT and Epic team to facilitate the proper Epic build
• Works with procurement in assisting with all cost analysis for formulary considerations
• Ensures that committee members receive all pertinent material prior to the meeting
• Performs all required follow-up such as;
• Working with IT to ensure proper Epic build of any new formulary addition
• ii. Revisits any closes any open-ended items
• iii. Ensures any recommendations from the committee are followed through
• Works on any education regarding formulary additions to help ensure proper use
• Maintaining and reviewing the enterprise system formulary to help ensure the most cost-effective therapies are available.
• Reviews, with site pharmacy directors, local formularies to ensure adherence to central formulary
• Provides direct support to the Clinical Pharmacy Committee or other interdisciplinary Councils in order to:
• Identify and implement quality improvement programs and continuous quality assurance initiatives to advance the medication use systems and promote optimal patient outcomes.
• Identify best practices and help ensure the health system maintains the highest level of patient care
• Facilitate standardization of medication use practices across the organization including formulary management and editing/updating policies and procedures
• Provides direct support to the Medication Safety Council to ensure the safe usage of medication throughout the health system.
  
  Responsibilities include:
• Coordinating research and reporting of medication errors and adverse drug events across the enterprise and data analytic summaries
• Performing root cause analysis (RCAs) when an event occurs to prevent such occurrences in the…